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gauze

/ɡɔːz/

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Canada/ɡɑz/

gauze noun: a thin fabric with a loose, open weave. Also the ellipsis of wire gauze.

gauze: a thin fabric with a loose, open weave
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Noun

gauze (countable and uncountable, plural gauzes)

  1. A thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
  2. A similar bleached cotton fabric used as a surgical dressing.
    • “I can’t wrap up any dog’s foot now. There’s some gauze in the bathroom, go get it and do it yourself.”1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
  3. A thin woven metal or plastic mesh.
  4. Mist or haze

Verb

gauze (third-person singular simple present gauzes, present participle gauzing, simple past and past participle gauzed)

  1. (transitive) To apply a dressing of gauze; to cover with gauze.
    • The lid [of the feeder] has a circular gauzed area that allows the syrup to permeate slowly.2004, Peter Gordon, Starting with Bees, page 52
    • I gauzed the deep cuts and gashes.2007, Brandon Pena, Twilight’s Angel, page 161
  2. (ambitransitive, literary) To mist; to make or become gauze-like.
    • The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 28
    • It had come to be six o’clock; midges gauzed the air.1955, Elizabeth Bowen, A World of Love, page 40

Also used as

gauze is also the ellipsis of wire gauze.

gauze meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Assamese and Arabic

gauze in Hindi

thin fabric with open weave
गॉज़ gŏz

gauze in Bengali

thin fabric with open weave
গজ goj

gauze in Assamese

thin fabric with open weave
গজ্ goz

gauze in Arabic

thin fabric with open weave
شَاش šāš
cotton fabric used as surgical dressing
شَاش šāš
More languagesFewer languages
gauze in Malay
kain kasa, kasa, kasa dawai
gauze in Indonesian
kasa

Examples of gauze in a sentence

  • He stopped the wound with gauze.
  • Puss leaked out from beneath white gauze on his back and trickled down his spine.
  • "Lad," he said quietly, "I didn't try to wrap you in gauze, you know that.

All 27 example sentences with gauze

Forms of gauze

Noun
pluralgauzes
alternative form (obsolete)gause
Verb
third-person singular presentgauzes
present participlegauzing
past participlegauzed
pastgauzed

Plural of gauze: gauzes

Origin of gauze

Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).

Words formed from gauze

Phrases with gauze

Words that rhyme with gauze

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Questions about gauze

What does gauze mean?
Gauze means a thin fabric with a loose, open weave.
What is gauze in Hindi?
Gauze in Hindi is गॉज़ (gŏz). See Gauze meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is gauze?
Gauze can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce gauze?
Gauze is pronounced /ɡɔːz/.
What is the plural of gauze?
The plural of gauze is gauzes.

Words near gauze in the dictionary

  1. gauts
  2. Gauvin
  3. Gauvins
  4. gauvison
  5. Gauxholme
  6. gauze
  7. gauze mat
  8. gauze mats
  9. gauze-like
  10. gauzed
  11. gauzeless

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